to...@tuxteam.de [2021-08-13 19:11:43] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:49:34PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: > [...] >> Plonk ? > Greg and The Wanderer already provided a definition. Just adding > one standard reference, the Jargon File [1] in such things. Old > Usenet lore. > Cheers > > [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html
How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style
representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly.
Stefan
